ALTERNATIVE NEWS

20 Jan 2013

Fascist Europe Banned -Press TV: We go to Mali with French troops and ask the French president what he is
doing so soon after the Libya. Our reporter asks the people of Britain
about economic growth figures from China. We talk to veteran foreign
correspondent, Pepe Escobar, about the continuing crisis in Syria. These
and much more are all reviewed in this edition of Double Standards with
Afshin Rattansi. Source

"I don't want to be told who is a terrorist I can decide for myself!"An analyst says Spain's particularly ridiculous excuse for the country's
removal of Iran's Spanish language channel; Hispan TV is an obvious
violation of free speech and exposure of Western double standards. The
comment comes as the Spanish government has ordered the satellite
service provider Hispasat to take the Iranian Spanish language channel,
Hispan TV off the air in a blatant assault on the freedom of speech.
Hispan TV, along with Iran's 24-hour English language news channel Press
TV, has already been targeted by Hispasat's fellow European satellite
providers Eutelsat and Hotbird. Hispasat is partly owned by Eutelsat,
whose French-Israeli CEO is blamed for the recent wave of attacks on
Iranian media in Europe.

Submitted by Tyler Durden: Last week we reported that in the aftermath of
the so far disastrous French campaign to eradicate "rebels" in the
north of Mali, because of their implied threat fo Europe, that "US Drones, Boots Arrive In Mali." Turns out we were wrong, and as the case virtually always is, for some reason there was already a US presenceof
at least three US commandos in Mali in the summer of 2012. What they
were doing there remains a mystery, as it is a mystery if the ever
co-present flip flops on the ground were there inciting the perpetual
scapegoat Al Qaeda to do this, or that. Or maybe it was not the CIA.
Maybe it was the Army's "little-known and secretive" branch known as the
Intelligence and Security Command. Regardless, what becomes obvious is
that while the US was on the ground and engaged in secret missions, it
needed an alibi to avoid "destabilizing" the local situation once its
presence became conventional wisdom. It got just that, thank to one
Francois Hollande just over a week ago.

In pre-dawn darkness, a ­Toyota Land Cruiser skidded off a bridge in
North Africa in the spring, plunging into the Niger River. When
rescuers arrived, they found the bodies of three U.S. Army commandos —
alongside three dead women.What the men were doing in the impoverished country of Mali, and why
they were still there a month after the United States suspended
military relations with its government, is at the crux of a mystery that
officials have not fully explained even 10 weeks later.

At the very least, the April 20 accident exposed a team of Special Operations forces that had been working for months in Mali

OccupyTheBanks: And so rumour has it (see source); Billions of US Dollars in CASH have been seized by Pakistan. You know, the NATO
HEROIN RUNNING NETWORK's money, for the cash-intensive 'hard work' of
supplying the world's heroin users, with heroin (and keeping all the
funds made, all untaxed, of course). Now we have HSBC **NAILED** as not just a drug money launderer for the COCAINECARTELS of MEXICO, it's time to nail Bank of America for it's involvement in the GLOBAL NARCOTICS BUSINESS of DRUG MONEY LAUNDERING, too. Do take a peek; only 36 seconds long, but these are allegedly the boxes, seized by the Pakistani Military.

Intimidated staff forced to flout rules in pursuit of 'revenue at all costs'

Huge blow to Barclays reputation as new CEO struggles to relaunch bank

By
Simon Watkins: A senior Barclays executive has quit
after it was revealed that he secretly shredded a bombshell report that
described a key part of the bank as ‘out of control’.

Andrew
Tinney, who was chief operating officer of the bank’s high-end private
investment division, Barclays Wealth, destroyed the explosive dossier at
his £5 million Surrey mansion after reading its shocking contents.He
then misled banking regulators and Barclays chief executive Antony
Jenkins – the man brought in to clean up the bank after the Libor
rate-fixing scandal and the resignation of Bob Diamond – by pretending
that the report had never existed.But
he finally owned up to suppressing it, and last week Barclays made an
internal announcement that he had resigned from his job.The
dossier, seen by The Mail on Sunday, exposes a culture of fear,
intimidation, bullying and mismanagement at the bank’s stockbroking and
investment arm, which handles client assets worth £184 billion.

The Solg:I have several pointers I use all the time when trying to judge how
and when something financial is going to go wrong, fall over or implode.
One of the biggest is national estate agency chains coming to market.
Estate agent multiples always buy and sell at the wrong time. When they
try to sell themselves to a bourse, you know it’s tits-up time.The UK’s largest estate agency Countrywide is getting down to the
short strokes for a stock market flotation by its US owner, indicating
perhaps a vote of confidence in the recovery of the country’s housing
market, or more likely a case of tertiary insanity. The American private
equity group Oaktree Capital is having serious talks with Goldman Sachs
and other suspects about launching an IPO for Countrywide, reckoned to
have about 10% of the English domestic properties market.I wish to encourage them in this venture, because as you know I’ve never liked Estate Agents that much.Less eccentric (but equally useful in reading the runes) is the fact
most Economists expect the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to
reveal next Friday that the UK’s GDP contracted by around 0.22% in the
three months to December. This will simply confirm that George Osborne’s
optimism about the tax income/welfare balance is way off, and that once
again the Conservatives have shown they can cut costs but are somewhat
remiss when it comes to the creation of replacements for old business
sectors. As in, they’ve done diddly-squat about it.Once more the financial pages are talking about a ‘triple-dip
recession’ which is of course a developing depression that would by now
be in full swing had not £0.8 trillion of our money been needlessly
thrown at pushing back the final waves.

RT: The world's 100 richest people earned a stunning total of $240
billion in 2012 – enough money to end extreme poverty worldwide four
times over, Oxfam has revealed, adding that the global economic crisis
is further enriching the super-rich.

“The richest 1 percent has increased its income by 60 percent in
the last 20 years with the financial crisis accelerating rather than
slowing the process,” while the income of the top 0.01 percent has seen even greater growth, a new Oxfam report said.For
example, the luxury goods market has seen double-digit growth every
year since the crisis hit, the report stated. And while the world's 100
richest people earned $240 billion last year, people in "extreme poverty" lived on less than $1.25 a day.Oxfam is a leading international philanthropy organization. Its new report,
‘The Cost of Inequality: How Wealth and Income Extremes Hurt us All,’
argues that the extreme concentration of wealth actually hinders the
world’s ability to reduce poverty. The report was published before the World Economic Forum in Davos next week, and calls on world leaders to
“end extreme wealth by 2025, and reverse the rapid increase in
inequality seen in the majority of countries in the last 20 years.”

By Martin Hesse, Thomas Schulz, Christoph Scheuermann and Anne Seith: For
decades, investment bankers have held the key to untold riches -- but
now they're being laid off by the tens of thousands. As the crisis
forces the industry to search for a new identity, is it ready to mend
its ways?

The suicide victims chose a location with symbolic significance. Last
fall, only a few weeks apart, a businesswoman and a banker went to the
Coq d'Argent, an upscale restaurant and hot spot in the world of London
high finance, located on the top floor of a shopping complex, to end
their lives.The woman put down her purse and jumped from the restaurant's cozy
rooftop terrace. The banker, an investment specialist, jumped into the
building's atrium around lunchtime.The "City," the casual term the financial center uses in reference to
itself, was shocked. The suicides are the most glaring expression of an
apocalyptic mood that seems to have gripped all of London. Hospitals
are reporting a high incidence of patients with alcohol problems, while
top restaurants are fighting for every customer.The crisis has struck at the heart of the financial center. In 2012,
banks began to downsize their investment banking activities. For years,
the area had been seen as a playground for those seeking instant riches
and guaranteed success, and it provided tens of thousands with sometimes
exorbitant incomes.October 30 would become a horrific day for the financial district
after the Swiss bank UBS announced that it was slashing 10,000 jobs in
the sector.

Submitted by Tyler Durden: Almost two years after the awful nuclear
disaster occurred, a fish caught near Fukushima on Friday January 18th
had a record-breaking level of radioactive contamination over2500x the legal limit. TEPCO measured 'Mike the Murasoi' at 254,000 becquerels per kilogram (with the limit for edible seafood at 100 becquerels). As Le Monde reports, the previous record (caught on August 21st 2012) was a mere 25,800 becquerels/kg. As further precautions,TEPCO is installing new nets 20km around the Fukushima Daichi site
to avoid highly contaminated fish gettig too far and being consumed by
other species. While Mike's family are no doubt distraught (at him being
caught and being so radioactive), it appears (somewhat
disappointingly) that there is no apparent third eye, lazer fins, legs,
or other 'expected' 'blinky' malformations

AJ: A wave of sheriffs, state legislatures and law enforcement figures have
stood up to put the federal government on notice that they will NOT be
involved in any disarmament measures or violations of the 2nd Amendment.
Their courageous and patriotic actions are the very solution, grounded
in the Constitution and Bill of Rights, that Sheriff Mack has been
advocating for decades through his books, and his organizational work
with the Oath Keepers, the Constitutional Sheriffs & Police Officers
Association (CSPOA.org) and more.

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Are YOU Involved or Institutionalized? Our belief that the global economic crisis would persist and deepen is being vindicated and current events are now as clear as ever on the matter. Time for all of us to wake up, stand up and be counted or continue to lose all our liberties. Protect your homes and families. The sun will still rise but financial chaos and suffering due to the global fascist banksters' greed and corruption, slaughter due to the MIC's directed world wars in our name etc. is not pretty. We are feeling the effect on our society the size and like of which we have never known.

We are way past being surprised at the blanket suppression of this information by the BBC and main stream media propaganda machines. Information is clearly available elsewhere and unchallenged, accounts for a far more realistic rendition of what we have actually seen and what we continue to see develop, whilst the main stream news put out leaves many confused and bewildered, 99.9% of us wrong footed and the awakened indignant. As we can now see, the apparently 'soft fascist' powers that be aim to block these alternative avenues of information. Book up, "Long Live the Evolution."Feel free to kopimi. Angelo Agathangelou.

P.S. The MHRM, are calling out the constant misinformation disseminated by and maintain our open challenge especially to western radical feminists, to point out just one area where government in the UK, Europe or anywhere else in the English speaking world disadvantages women and girls when compared with men and boys, ...the wage disparity myth having long been debunked by serious academics and statisticians. So far this challenge has remained unanswered. Western feminism is obsolete.

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